An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
Singapore was not a fishing village but a thriving port from 1918 that evil Brit built for their lucrative opium trades in SEA, their new market.
So Stamford Raffles was a drug trafficker and drug Lord built Singapore from drug money? Angmoh are the best...
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As China tightened her borders, Britain pinned her hopes on her other Asian colonies. Opium production in the Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Labuan) rose from 353,938 pounds in 1916 to 370,688 pounds in 1920, in spite of Britain’s promise at the Hague Convention to limit opium sales. In 1918, 60% of Britain’s Asian income was derived from opium sales.
In 1925, opium accounted for 48% of Singapore’s revenue, and 100% of North Borneo’s. At the 1923 Opium Conference, Mr. Campbell admitted that the British Indian government was determined to maintain high levels of both internal consumption and export, and that they,
“controlled the production, distribution, sale, possession – every possible practical question which could arise in connection with opium—in the strictest possible manner—They had built up a complicated and highly efficient administrative system which started from the time the poppy seed was put into the ground, and did not relinquish control of the drug until it was in the hands of the consumers, or till it was actually exported.”
http://www.amoymagic.com/OpiumWar.htm
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03-05-2015, 02:50 PM
Angmoh Brit built Singapore from opium trades, angmohs are the best..
